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From: Lexington Luthor <Lexington.Luthor@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "Why Reuser 4 still is not in" doc
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:53:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9eg1v$5sf$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bda6d13a0607161428j187b737ft6f3925d9a3b2cc72@mail.gmail.com>

Joshua Hudson wrote:
>> (aside from the VFS integration debate)
> Anybody know what's in Reiser4 that VFS doesn't like (link please)?

Reiser4 plug-ins have (had?) the ability to alter the semantics of 
things, like making files into directories inside which you could see 
meta-files like file/uid and file/size which contained meta-data and 
such accessible as normal files to all the unix tools (which is a very 
good idea IMO). You could get things like chmod by just 'echo root 
 >file/owner' or something, very nice.

This was frowned upon by kernel developers who felt that it belonged in 
the kernel VFS (if at all), rather than in reiser4 directly.

Regards,
LL


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-16 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-16 16:16 reiserFS? Xavier Roche
2006-07-16 16:28 ` reiserFS? Christian Trefzer
2006-07-16 16:56   ` reiserFS? Theodore Tso
2006-07-16 17:26     ` reiserFS? Lexington Luthor
2006-07-16 17:48       ` reiserFS? Theodore Tso
2006-07-16 20:01         ` "Why Reuser 4 still is not in" doc (was: 'reiserFS?') Diego Calleja
2006-07-16 21:11           ` "Why Reuser 4 still is not in" doc Lexington Luthor
2006-07-16 21:28             ` Joshua Hudson
2006-07-16 22:53               ` Lexington Luthor [this message]
2006-07-17  9:42                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-17 16:38                   ` Lexington Luthor
2006-07-20  6:52           ` Tilman Schmidt
2006-07-16 17:46     ` reiserFS? Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2006-07-16 18:14       ` reiserFS? Theodore Tso
2006-07-17 15:01   ` reiserFS? Matthias Andree
2006-07-17 21:07   ` reiserFS? Helge Hafting
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-17 11:25 "Why Reuser 4 still is not in" doc Al Boldi
2006-07-17 14:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-17 18:41   ` Horst von Brand

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